Re: Help creating a pipe delimited file

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Mike Cunningham
<mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx> wrote:

We just finished a project doing this.

We made a work file defined as
[...]

In RPG did this
[...]

Good so far.

In CL did this
/* Copy the temporary import work file to the IFS directory */
CPYTOIMPF FROMFILE(QTEMP/UTPIMPF) TOSTMF(&TOSTMF) +
MBROPT(*REPLACE) STMFCODPAG(*PCASCII) +
RCDDLM(*CRLF) DTAFMT(*DLM) STRDLM(*NONE) +
STRESCCHR(*NONE) RMVBLANK(*TRAILING) +
FLDDLM(*TAB)

I doubt CPYTOIMPF is the best tool here. The intent of CPYTOIMPF is
to take an externally described file with a bunch of regular fields
(typically not all text), and put the delimiters between those fields
for you. In your case, you've got a file with just one field defined,
so CPYTOIMPF is left with nothing to do but copy that one field (thus
no delimiters for it to insert) to the output.

The process flow you're describing (where you use RPG to insert
delimiters into a flat file) fits better with CPYTOSTMF. In effect,
what you've done is to provide Jeff Young's answer, except with some
code samples (which are valuable, don't get me wrong!).

Richard, if you're comfortable with RPG, I think this approach is
probably the most expedient. Your RPG code will of course be more
complex than Mike's, because you'll have to write multiple formats,
but the basic flow is there. Of course you need to use pipe instead
of tab, and I recommend using CPYTOSTMF instead of CPYTOIMPF at the
end.

John Y.